Labour relations
Trending topics
- Artificial intelligence
- Remote work regulations
- European Framework Agreement
- CSRD
- hybrid work
- Skills
- EWC agreements and recast directive
- Gig workers and the regulation of platforms
- Wages
- Gender equality
- Older workers
- Managing the fallout of Covid-19
- Collective agreement
- Corporate sustainability due diligence
- Global Framework Agreements
Netherlands: the question of post employees’ remuneration is popping up in the debate on the postal market’s liberalization
Yesterday, the Labour MPs of the PVDA (Party for Labour and Progress), member of the coalition ruling, threatened to block the postal market's liberalization, planned for January 1, 2008, if...
26 April 2007
Spain: two CCOO federations merger to create a large industry sector federation
The CCOO's federal council gave the green light, on April 24, to the fusion of two of its large federations, the metallurgy federation (FM-CCOO) and the textile and chemistry industries...
26 April 2007
Belgium: the CSC presented its Memorandum with in preparation for the legislative elections
After listening to the FGTB (see our story n°070352,) the leaders of the eight French and Dutch speaking democratic parties answered to the CSC (christian union) invitation to debate on its...
26 April 2007
General Motors : the union coordination lead by the IMF is asking the management to respect union rights
The International Metalworkers' Federation (IMF) brought together its network of union representatives within GM (GM's actions group) on April 18 and 19 in Antwerp, in order to examine the...
25 April 2007
Netherlands: strikes are getting shorter
In the Netherlands, strikes are shorter and shorter and less and less harmful for economic activity, underlined the Central Statistics Office (CBS). (Ref. 070371)
25 April 2007
Spain: the CCOO postal federation launched a petition against the sector’s early liberalization
The postal sector of the Federation of Communication and Transportation FCT-CCOO launched an internet campaign in order to sensitize the European Commission and the Spanish government to its...
24 April 2007
Netherlands: social agreement with three bus companies
An agreement was negotiated on the night between April 23 and April 24 between unions and the three bus companies, Arriva, Connexxion and Veolia. Unions gained satisfaction on their main claim...
24 April 2007
Arcelor Mittal: the steel group is going to sign an agreement on the new European works council
The steel group Arcelor Mittal's management and employees' representatives came to an agreement, on April 19, 2007, in Aviles (Spain,) during the fourth negotiation meeting on the establishment of...
23 April 2007
Poland : wages are soaring
According to the latest statistics, wages reached a record level last March : + 9.1%. If this news item satisfies employees and unions, employers and economists remain skeptical. (Ref. 070367)
23 April 2007
Czech Republic : Skoda Auto has reached wage agreement with its unions
One day after a warning strike (see our article n°070349), Skoda Auto management and the carmaker's unions reached a wage agreement. Skoda Auto, originally a Czech car manufacturer, is a member of...
23 April 2007
Netherlands: managers’ pay is being debated
Chief executive officers' excessive incomes are at the heart of a debate within Parliament, and an association of small shareholders has just published the list of what it considers as the most...
19 April 2007
Porsche: the car manufacturer will adopt the European Company (EC) status in June 2007
Following its takeover of Volkswagen, the luxury car manufacturer announced that it wanted to try to transform into an EC, through the creation of a holding company. Even though the measure will...
19 April 2007
Great Britain : two British unions are uniting with an American one to try to establish joint negotiations with multinationals
Two of the largest British unions, Amicus and the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) signed an agreement on Wednesday April 18 with their American counterpart - United Steel Workers (USW)...
19 April 2007
Royal BAM : an international framework agreement on workers’ rights signed
The Dutch construction group, the building and wood workers' international (BWWI) and the Dutch unions FNV and CNV signed, on April 11, 2007, an open ended international framework agreement (IFA)...
18 April 2007
Belgium: what the union confederation FGTB is expecting from the future government
The federal management of the FGTB (the General Belgian Labour Federation, with a socialist tendency) presented, on April 17, 2007, within the Federal Parliament, before the eight democratic...
18 April 2007
Czech Republic: Skoda’s unions are calling on a strike to support wage claims
Unions from the Czech car manufacturer Skoda (group VW) called on a day of strike on April 17 in order to back up their wage claims. After over eight negotiation sessions, unions had already...
18 April 2007
Our mind news
France: La Poste to launch negotiations for an AI agreement
Following the lead of firms such as Axa, Syensqo globally, and more recently CDC Habitat, La Poste group management will open negotiations on an AI regulation agreement during the first half of...
5 March 2026
Crédit Agricole is to adopt stricter rules on remote work from mid-March onwards. The rules will be tightened for employees, but the maximum number of days working remotely will remain unchanged.
29 January 2026
The three representative trade unions at Orange France have until 10 December to validate an agreement on gender equality, work–life balance and anti-discrimination measures. While the text...
8 December 2025
In 2025, for the first time, the universal registration documents of major European companies contain the sustainability reporting required by the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive...
31 October 2025
Most viewed articles of the month on mind HR
What readers clicked on the most last month.
What readers clicked on the most last month.
1
France: Bayer puts female health and inclusive parenthood at the centre of its equality policy
In a new agreement on gender equality highlighted by mind RH, Bayer commits to strengthening its parenthood policy. Furthermore, the company is anticipating pay transparency and introducing...
25 September 2026
2
Germany: Volkswagen cancels almost all collective bargaining agreements signed with IG Metall
The Volkswagen brand announced on 30 September that it is terminating 10 of its 13 internal collective bargaining agreements, effective 31 December 2026. The announcement, which the carmaker...
1 October 2026
3
France: final document on the work of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference
After six months of discussions between French social partners, the guarantors of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference submitted the conclusions of the discussions to the Prime Minister...
17 September 2026
4
Germany: Employers’ representatives seek to limit the rights of works councils
The Employers' Federation of German Employers' Associations (Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbände - BDA) published a report at the end of September in which it proposes a...
8 October 2026
5
Germany: working time dispute between Mercedes and the IG Metall Union
The news. At the beginning of September, Mercedes-Benz asked employee representatives and the IG Metall union to agree to an increase in the weekly working time from 35 to 40 hours, without any...
16 September 2026
6
Germany: major day of union action in the automotive industry ahead of collective bargaining
A few weeks before the start of collective bargaining in the German metalworking sector, the IG Metall trade union mobilised nearly 175,000 workers across more than 200 industrial sites on 21...
22 September 2026